Industrial Workers of the World collection 7072761Rare Book and Manuscript Library
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This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2023-08-09 08:26:02 -0400.Description is written in: English, Latin script.2012-08-09File created.2019-05-20EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration. Rare Book and Manuscript Library Industrial Workers of the World collection Industrial Workers of the World 7072761 MS#1475 English . 0.5 linear feet 1 box and 1 oversize poster 1916-1922 1 Restrictions on Access

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 Summary

A small collection of poems, broadsides, fliers, publications, manuscripts, and letters.

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Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Industrial Worker of the World Records; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.

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 Immediate Source of Acquisition

2008-2009-M105: Source of acquisition--[source of acquisition]. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--11/30/2002.

 Biographical / Historical

The Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.), also known as the "Wobblies", is an international labor union founded in Chicago in 1905.

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Papers processed PTL 8/8/2012.

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 Labor unions -- History Labor movement -- United States -- History -- 20th century Socialism -- United States -- History Broadsides (notices) Pamphlets Poems Chumley, L. S (Leland Stanford) Industrial Workers of the World Contents List:"International Solidarity" Broadside in Russian and English191711"The Can Opener" Volume 1, No. 3 October 28, 1917. Manuscript in pencil with illustrations 8 pages. Fragile12Photograph of I.W.W. Headquarters "Raided November 15, 1919"13"Co-Operative Corridors Jail Jazzpaper" Volume 1, No. 5 April 13, 1918. Manuscript in pencil with illustrations 16 pages. Fragile14"The Can Opener" Volume 1, No. 6 November, 1917. Manuscript in pencil with illustrations 10 pages. Fragile15"Industrial Union Manifesto" [recto] and "One Big Union: The Structure of the Industrial System" [verso, circular chart]. William D. Haywood, General Secretary Treasured, 1001 West Madison Street, Chicago, Ill (folded)100116Circular letter from the General Defense Committee re. the pamphlet "Shall Freedom Die", undated 1p.undated17Unionismo Industrial por Vincent St. John Traduccion de A.V.A. Pamphlet, 16 p annotated18Why One Big Union Club? Flyer, October, 1935 Fragile, brittleOctober, 193519Card "Open the Doors of Freedom" Poem by William Goodhue110Card: "A Call to Sinn Feiners" Poem by Joe Kennedy111Industrial Workers of the World Tenth Convention Ball, Chicago November 25, 1916 Advertising pamphlet, 16p.112The Will of the People Says "Let Them Go Free!" Pamphlet 4p.113To the Public. And Particularly the Working Man and Women of this Vicinity Flyer, broadside.114"Monster Protest Meeting Against the Hanging of Tom Mooney", March24, 1918. Flyer115"The Producer's Age" A Weekly Magazine for Workers, July 20, 1921. Broadside116I.W.W.. General Defense Committee. Flyer, signed L.S. Chumleyundated117Broadside regarding "The Producers", June 5, 1921.118The Preacher and the Slave and My Wandering Boy. Printed songs119Fill the Jails Pamphlet by Better America Federation of California1921120The One Big Union. Membership cards (2), signed by Jesse Kennedy121I.W.W. logo on card122High-Brow Stuff vs. The Dinner Pail . Pamphlet, 8p.123"The Douglas Co. Jail Jinx" Volume I, No 1. Manuscript (extremely fragile!)124Cartoon of mail carrier bring large sack of mail to L.C. Chumley. Pencil artwork on envelope125"A Detective" by William Haywood. On post-card126Printing Job Ticket10/21/26127Envelope labeled "Secret Prison Newspaper"128"Convention Call for the One Big Union", June 29, 1920. Broadside129"Attention Workers!" Broadside The Bank of North DakotaFebruary1, 1921130"International Position of the I.W.W." June 1, 1922. Broadside.131"Unions Fight for the Right to Strike; "What Do You Think of This?": "The I.W.W. Trial"; "You and I". Leaflets132"To Member of the I.W.W.": Leaflet; "Going to the Harvers?". Leaflet No 1; "Stop the Split in the I.W.W." Leaflet No 2;133"To All Marine Transport Workers" Broadside133The One Big Union by Forrest Edwards. Pamphlet133Does the I.W.W. Preach Violence? Broadside133Do You Want Mob Rule? Pamphlet133Helen Keller Scores I.W.W. Persecutions. Pamphlet133The Unskilled Labor Problem. Broadside133Smash the I.W.W. Pamphlet133The One Big Union of Mine Workers by A.V. Azuara.Oil Field Workers Unite. Pamphlet133Playing with Dynamite. EditorialNovember 16, 1927133Metal Workers of America! Unite!. Leaflet133I.W.W. General Defense Committee. BroadsideDecember 31, 1917133Food Those Who Prepare and Serve it. Leaflet133L.S. Chumley correspondence, 1918-1919 (21 items)1918-1919134"Workers are You Aware of the Fact that the Manufacturers Association is Scheming to Cut Down Your Wages?" Typesd mss (carbon) 4p.135"Bulletin" and "Manifesto"undated136"Report on Party Fractions" Manuscript with form137"This international strike . . ." Holograph, fragile!138"Flare Up Within this Marine Transport Workers IU of the IWW"139Letters to Joe Fisher1924140"To the American People: Report Upon the Illegal Practices of the United States Department of Justice", November 1920 (pamphlet)November 1920141"Report to General Executive Board", 1920 (pamphlet)1920142I.W.W. blank stationary143"Manifesto of Socialist Industrial Unionism" (broadside)144"Publications of the American Russian Institute, Inc." January 15, 1938 (list)January 15, 1938145"Dialectical Materialism: A Series of Ten Lectures by Charles Chang" Types manuscript.146T-bone Slim letter to L.S. ChumleyFebruary13, 1922147L.S. Chumley. "Statement on trial of 115 members and sympathizers of the I.W.W. in Chicago"148"Is It Reason To Strike?" Broadside by General Defense Committee.149Minutes of N.Y.R.U. meeting of April 29, 1919 signed "Harry".April 29, 1919150Poems:A. Barr poem151A.L. T'Rego poem152Benjamin Richardson poem153Covington Ami poems154D.S. Dietz poem155Donald M. Crocker poem156F.R. Uhde poem157Gerald Laury poem158Harold Roland Johnson poem159Harrison George poem160J.H.B. the Rambler161J. William Schweitzer poem162Lawrence Tully poem163Lew Maisel poem164Los Angeles Jack poem165Mor Goldsmith poem166Podmuck Red poem167Raymond Corder poem168Red Pacific poem169Richard Brazier poem170Sigismund poems171W. Clifford poem172Wigand Allen poem173Poems by unidentified author174Miscellaneous envelopes (3)175Large W.W.I Poster15-K-6